No Vacancy?

I don't know if you've ever just got the urge to go on a little weekend get away, and decided to skip the whole hotel reservation bit and go out on a limb and hope to find an open room at your favorite hotel, just to find signs similar to the one above: NO VACANCY. It is a very disheartening, discouraging and frustrating flash, those rays of neon rejection!! All that makes me think, which is scary I know. Here are some of my thoughts:
So this week I've been thinking a lot about Christmas and my relationship with Jesus and how it all ties in. Because it does all tie in, just in case you forgot!! If it wasn't for His birth, we wouldn't have His death, which led to His resurrection, which ultimately leads to our salvation when we place our faith in Him and Him alone. This time of the year we get so busy with shopping, running around getting last minute things together, office parties, family get togethers, having those ridiculous Christmas card pictures made (sorry if you get one in the mail from me, it wasn't my idea), and whatever else we have going on. We often loss sight of what is really important, and we begin filling our lives with so much junk, there is often times NO VACANCY for Jesus. Which, if the truth be known this is nothing new for Jesus to experience. I mean, when He was born there was NO VACANCY in the inn, so He had to be born in a barn-Luke 2:6-8 then as He is going about His ministry, people including His own family, reject Him-Luke 4:28-30, John 7:1-5 and finally He was buried in a BORROWED tomb outside the city-Matthew 27:59-60. This is not the way it should have been, but the sad part is that it still happens today even with we Christians. We get so absorbed in our agendas, our plans, our lives, that we essentially have NO VACANCY for Jesus. Let's take the time and make the effort to remove the things that are taking up room in our lives and give Jesus His rightful place, the CENTER OF OUR LIVES!!!

Keepin' it Real,
Bholda